The Kwantung Army took great pains to build this iron-clad force and become its favorable helper in suppressing the Chinese anti-Japanese armed forces. Not only did it mobilize a large number of Japanese officers, but it was also repeatedly selected among the so-called Manchu officers. As soon as the Manchu officers were deemed unreliable, they were immediately eliminated.

In this hard-stone unit, there are not only gendarmerie units that specialize in internal control, but also plainclothes units that are used for reconnaissance. The weapons and equipment it cooperates with are also exceptionally sophisticated, and the treatment is far higher than that of the ordinary puppet Manchu army. Among its officers, Japanese officers accounted for a quarter of the total, and a considerable number of them were active officers of the Kwantung Army.

This unit is subordinate to an infantry brigade and a cavalry brigade, and a battalion-level chariot unit codenamed the Iron Tiger Force. The infantry brigade is subordinate to two infantry regiments, and a cavalry detachment with two cavalry companies under its jurisdiction. Each infantry regiment has three infantry battalions, one anti-aircraft artillery company, one mortar company, one engineer company, one baggage company, one command platoon, one communications platoon, and one health team.

Each battalion has three infantry companies, plus a heavy machine gun company. Each infantry company had 188 men, armed with 12 Type 96 light machine guns, 12 Type 89 grenadiers, and a heavy machine gun company with eight Type 92 heavy machine guns. This firepower configuration even exceeded the firepower configuration of six light machine guns and six grenadiers of an ordinary squadron of the Japanese army.

The regimental mortar is equipped with eight 82 mortars, and the anti-aircraft artillery company is equipped with eight Type 41 anti-aircraft guns. Without increasing firepower, it exceeded the firepower of an ordinary infantry brigade of the Japanese army. The third-level officers of the battalion, company and platoon, including the squad leader and the combat detachment leader, are all made fast and slow in the sky.

The baggage company has 30 rubber-tyred carts, 60 pack horses, and 4 trucks, and the communications platoon is equipped with two five-watt radios. The cavalry detachment of the whole brigade plus two cavalry companies totaled more than 8,500 people. If you add the two cavalry regiments of the cavalry detachment, the total strength is two and a half thousand people. As well as 1,600 people of the puppet Manchurian railway police road protection force of the so-called Tiehua Army, and several thousand people of the directly subordinate troops.

Before the Battle of Redong, the division totaled more than 16,000 men. The total strength is slightly lower than that of a division of the Anti-Japanese Union, but far more than the sum of the main force and local troops of the Eastern Hebei Military Region. The equipment can be described as extremely sophisticated, not only complete with infantry, cavalry, artillery, workers and other troops, but also equipped with a light combat fleet, an armored fleet and an automobile fleet.

Not to mention dealing with the anti-coalition forces in the various base areas behind enemy lines in Guannai, this weaponry is not even inferior to the elite division of the Central Army in Chongqing under the premise of one-on-one. As for the puppet troops recruited by the Wang puppet regime, whether they are former bandits, former security regiments, or former motley units that defected to the enemy in Chongqing, they are far from being able to reach this firepower.

In addition to the former Chongqing army that was transferred to the Taihang and Taiyue base areas by the general Okamura Ningji, and vigorously reorganized with the captured Chongqing weapons and equipment. The rest of the puppet army, including the most well-equipped North China Security Army, was far from each other.

Compared with the anti-United Nations, the firepower below the battalion level has no 12-mm high-level dual-purpose machine guns, no 60 guns, and no rocket launchers. However, the number of grenadiers was more than the number of 60 guns in the machine gun platoon of the anti-United Nations infantry company, but the combined number of light and heavy machine guns was compared with the 18 general-purpose machine guns and six 12-millimeter high-level dual-purpose machine guns of a battalion participating in the battle.

Although there are more of them than the Anti-Union, the power is far from the same. If the Anti-Union adds one squad light machine gun per combat squad, it is still higher than the firepower density of one of its battalions. Its Type 92 heavy machine gun, in terms of range and power, cannot be compared with the 12-mm high-level dual-purpose machine gun equipped by the Anti-United Nations.

There was a lack of direct-aim fire below the battalion level, and the power of the grenadiers was very different from that of the 60 guns. Although there are quite a few 41-type anti-aircraft guns equipped at the regimental level, there is no direct-aim firepower below the battalion level. The total number of soldiers in a battalion to which it belongs is only two-thirds of that of a battalion of the Anti-Japanese Union.

However, although these puppet armies are not as good as the Anti-Japanese Union in terms of firepower, they were trained by the Japanese army, and they are almost a copy of the Japanese army's troops, and their combat style on the battlefield is extremely fierce. The command level of officers at all levels, the coordination of troops at all levels, and the tactical level are quite high.

During the Battle of Redong, it once had a battalion, after a sudden encounter with a full-fledged infantry battalion of the Anti-Japanese Union in the process of interspersing in the mountains. In the situation that the forces were at a disadvantage, although two 82 mortars and one flat-fire gun were strengthened, the firepower still did not have the upper hand. The two sides fought fiercely for four hours, and did not lose the slightest advantage.

Because of the four-hour delay, the anti-coalition troops were unable to arrive at the designated combat area on time. After four hours of fierce fighting, the battalion was still intact when it withdrew from the battlefield, although it was more than half lost. The ferocity of its combat effectiveness can be seen from this.

Although in the Battle of Redong, more than half of its main force was annihilated in the Battle of Redong. There were more than 16,000 people in the whole army, and only about 4,000 remained. The convoy of the so-called Iron Tiger Force, to which it belonged, was completely wiped out, and the special contingent composed of the Koreans, known as the Iron Man Force, was also completely wiped out, and there was not one out of ten heavy equipment left in the whole army.

However, even though the division suffered heavy losses during the Battle of Redong, the basic structure of the division is still intact. With a strength of more than 4,000 troops, coupled with its fierce fighting style, as well as its considerable ability to carry out plainclothes activities and independent activities below the regimental level, it can still be said that it is a considerable threat in the western Liaoning battlefield.

It is precisely in consideration of the troubles brought to the participating troops by this puppet Manchurian so-called ironstone army during the Battle of Redong. Therefore, before this battle, Lee Myung-bak had repeatedly told the deputy commander of the mountain division who commanded the roundabout interspersed troops that once he encountered this iron-stone unit during the battle, he must not underestimate them.

Although it is now reduced from two infantry regiments to one infantry regiment, the cavalry brigade is reduced to a four-platoon cavalry regiment. However, judging from the combat effectiveness displayed in the Battle of Redong and the equipment of an existing artillery battalion and a mortar company composed of a mixture of anti-aircraft guns and mountain artillery, the division should be calculated according to a reinforced brigade of the Japanese army.

However, in today's battle, the commanders of the units participating in the battle were shocked to find that the so-called iron-stone unit of the puppet Manchu army that was fighting today was not only somewhat incomplete in strength and equipment, but also had its combat effectiveness and morale dropped by more than one grade compared with that during the Redong Campaign, which ended less than a month ago.

Not only is the offensive organization weak, but it is even quite chaotic. During defensive operations, the position not only collapsed as soon as it rushed, but even collapsed as soon as it collapsed. The Manchu officers either coped with the matter, or they just broke up at the touch of a button. Even the attack organized by the Japanese officers did not go so well.

The performance of toughness and rigidity during the Battle of Redong is simply a world of difference between more than a month. These were extremely ferocious in the recent Battle of Redong, fighting against their own flesh and blood compatriots, just like fighting against the enemy. But in such a short period of time, it has become so vulnerable that it is almost unbelievable.

This change of the puppet Manchurian army, which was still majestic and stubborn on the battlefield a month ago, made the front-line commanders very puzzled. After most of the main force of the Redong Battle was annihilated, although a certain number of troops were retained, the equipment and strength of the unit must be inadequate, and he knew this.

These so-called ironstone troops, although they slipped away quickly in the final stage of the Battle of Redong, finally escaped the fate of being completely annihilated. However, although a considerable number of people eventually escaped, the cavalry brigade and infantry brigade to which they belonged, as well as a large number of auxiliary troops, were all defeated in the Battle of Redong, and the losses were at least more than half.

One of the two infantry regiments was completely defeated, and the other had half of its strength left, and the two units together barely formed a new infantry regiment. But the regiment had only two infantry battalions, about one and two hundred people. Compared with before, there is a huge difference in both strength and equipment. At this time, it was impossible for the Japanese to give priority to replenishing them, and it was not surprising that the troops and equipment were insufficient.

However, it was beyond his expectation that his morale and combat effectiveness had declined so rapidly that he was about to collapse at the touch of a button in the middle of the battle, and there was even a large-scale desertion on the battlefield that even the Japanese officers and Japanese soldiers who were supervising the battle could not control. However, these puppet Manchu troops have changed so much that they have greatly reduced the pressure on the anti-United Nations participating forces.

It is precisely because of the low morale and combat effectiveness of these so-called ironstone units that they are unable to form an effective threat at all. In the first round of battle, he killed his unit commander Shigeyoshi Awano and captured his 37th Regiment Commander Nan Qingichi, and he no longer regarded him as an effective opponent. For such an army, whose morale and combat effectiveness have seriously declined, there is no need to spend troops in Lang. Only one was used to contain it, and the focus of the attack was still on the Japanese army.

As for the control of the Japanese troops on the commanding heights, they first used one force to cover the fire of two 82 mortars on a slightly lower hill to the northwest of the commanding heights, as well as two 14-mm anti-aircraft machine guns with a large oblique firing distance, dense firepower, and quite amazing power.

Constantly launch feints to contain and disperse its firepower, so that it is unable to suppress the fire on other fronts. The main force concentrated on dealing with the Japanese troops who were divided at Yamashita. As long as they dig out their trunks first, leaving a few side items, there is no threat.

Moreover, although the Japanese army struck first to seize the commanding heights, they only brought a few heavy machine guns, and not only infantry artillery and other firepower, but they were intercepted by the anti-union diagonally inserted into it. Moreover, his own contact with other Japanese troops was also cut off by a reinforced company of the Anti-Japanese Union that was forcibly inserted.

A few heavy machine guns, plus a squadron of Japanese troops, as long as the suppressive fire was sufficient, should affect the troops to fight down the hill. As long as the Japanese troops in other directions were defeated first, the remaining Japanese squadron would not affect the overall situation even if it occupied favorable terrain for a while, and after the encounter began, both the front-line commander of the Anti-Japanese Federation and the commander of the 31st Infantry Wing of the 58th Division of the Japanese Army, Kobayashijima Tsujima, were constantly adjusting the deployment of troops and firepower according to the development of the battle situation in front of them, so that they could defeat the opponent in front of them in the shortest possible time.

And the first thing the two of them did together was to desperately close the troops that were disrupted because they participated in them one after another. Mountain marches are limited by the terrain, who cannot take a group march, and all the troops are concentrated in one action.

As a result, with the different order in which each unit was put into the battlefield, as well as the time interval, the battlefield was completely disrupted. The entire battlefield is more than 20 miles long from east to west and nearly 9 miles wide from north to south.

In contrast to the commander of the 8th Division, Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama, he demanded that Tsukasa Kobayashishima gather the disorganized troops at all costs. Regarding the front-line commander's report on the battle situation, Lee Myung-bak was very unimpressed. What's wrong with the disruption of the establishment? Mess around, fight mess up.

As long as the enemy in front of him is solved, the front-line commander is not interested in how to fight him. He clearly told the front-line commanders that there was no need to rush to gather the troops, and that they would fight in a chaotic manner. As long as the troops participating in the war can bite the enemy in front of them tightly, there is nothing to worry about.